meteorology
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A New Heat Wave Will Set Records Across the West This Weekend
The West can’t catch a break. After a slight reprieve from this week’s extreme heat, which sparked raging wildfires that threatened electricity grids and lit up firenadoes in California, the region is preparing for its fourth scorching heat wave in just five weeks.
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‘Historic’ Heat Wave Shatters Record Highs Across the U.S. West Coast, and Temperatures Are Still Rising
Record-breaking temperatures are scorching the U.S. West Coast amid what the U.S. National Weather Service is calling a “historic and unprecedented heat wave” — and the summer sizzle hasn’t even reached its peak yet, AccuWeather reports.
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Deadly Floods Sweep Through Nashville
Flash flooding over the weekend in Tennessee killed four people and prompted dozens of rescues after record-breaking rain fell on the state capital of Nashville.
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We Have a Chance to Keep the Tropics Habitable
If we can hit the most aggressive targets set by the Paris Agreement, we could stave off the worst health impacts for people living in one of the most climate-vulnerable areas on Earth. A study published Monday in Nature Geoscience projects that the tropics will stay habitable to humans if we can keep warming below…